Thesis - critical and contextual approach to ceramics

This year aside of my studio project I have to write thesis - 'Using industrial ceramics forms and techniques to produce art objects.'
I thought that maybe some of you will find it interesting or helpful, so I will put up some of my research. The articles and essays are really interesting and I think that they explain well the 21st Century approach to ceramics combining art, design and craft.

I will update this post as I go along and add more texts.

'Otherwise unobtainable: the applied arts and the politics and poetics of digital technology.' T.Harrod,
'Patterns of making: thinking and making in industrial design.' H.Rees
'Contemporary clay.' C. Twomey
'Object Factory II' M.Cecula and D. Kopala

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Naked Raku

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